Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

Epochs. ix. Work

Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)

YET life is not a vision nor a prayer,

But stubborn work; she may not shun her task.

After the first compassion, none will spare

Her portion and her work achieved, to ask.

She pleads for respite,—she will come ere long

When, resting by the roadside, she is strong.